Re: [OS:N:] Use a firewall, go to jail...

[Chris Spencer <CSpencer CAIT org>]

Typical.  Let's just roll back security 10 years.  

Crackers paradise.

-Chris

On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 10:38, Jeremy Hogan wrote:
> "The states of Massachusetts and Texas are preparing to consider bills
> that apparently are intended to extend the national Digital Millennium
> Copyright Act. (TX bill; MA bill) The bills are obviously related to
> each other somehow, since they are textually similar.
> 
> Here is one example of the far-reaching harmful effects of these bills.
> Both bills would flatly ban the possession, sale, or use of technologies
> that "conceal from a communication service provider ... the existence or
> place of origin or destination of any communication". Your ISP is a
> communication service provider, so anything that concealed the origin or
> destination of any communication from your ISP would be illegal -- with
> no exceptions.
> 
> If you send or receive your email via an encrypted connection, you're in
> violation, because the "To" and "From" lines of the emails are concealed
> from your ISP by encryption. (The encryption conceals the destinations
> of outgoing messages, and the sources of incoming messages.)
> 
> Worse yet, Network Address Translation (NAT), a technology widely used
> for enterprise security, operates by translating the "from" and "to"
> fields of Internet packets, thereby concealing the source or destination
> of each packet, and hence violating these bills. Most security
> "firewalls" use NAT, so if you use a firewall, you're in violation..."
> 
> (more)
> 
> http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000336.html
> 
> 
> 
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